Mortal Kombat
Rise of the Dark one
Prolouge: The Wedding
The sound of a roaring engine resounded through the desert which herald the approach of a silver 2014 Ferrari that hurtled down the empty asphalt road. Several rocks passed by as the vehicle hit a hundred and fifty, still gaining speed and creating a dust cloud behind it while the storm clouds gathered around the horizon line. The radio in the car blared to life and a heavy low voice shouted from the speakers, "Kabal, where the hell are you? The wedding is in ten minutes!" Kabal laughed at this and pressed the talk button,
"I'm on my way Jax, I may be a little late though." The driver let go of the button, a small smirk spread across his face while waiting for a response from his friend.
"Well hurry up and get down here, Sonya is getting pissed and you know how that ends up!"
"Well I am less than ten minutes away, but I can always play dirty and speed up and be there in three." Jax laughed over the radio and agreed to this plan, "Good, I will be there, AH!" Jax could hear the audible shout over the radio but couldn't see what was happening in the vehicle, but Kabal could see, hear and feel everything that was happening. An arrow had flown cleanly through the window shield, piercing through the knuckle of Kabal's left hand that held onto the steering wheel, and the shaft and tip sunk through his arm and the tip pinned his elbow into the chair. His hand was pulled off the wheel, and the sudden lack of balance caused his right hand to swerve and the car flew off the road onto the desert sand. Another arrow flew through the passenger window, shattering the glass and piercing through Kabal's knees, pinning them together, and he let out another cry of pain. Within the last ten seconds all this happened Jax's voice continuously shouted from the speaker calling for Kabal and as he attempted to reach out with his right hand toward the button, the sound of steel being cut in one movement followed by the door being pulled off the car surprised him. Two hands reached through the gaping hole in the car and grabbed onto Kabal's arm, pulling him from the seat onto the scorching desert sand.
"Kabal I'll be there in five, stay alive!" Shouted Jax from the speaker. But Kabal could only look up as he was dragged along by his legs, making a trail through the sand along with a smaller trail of blood, he couldn't clearly see the attacker however, a long black cloak covered most of his back, the only indication of who this man was is the fingerless gloves that showed the pale white skin, and the hair that was spiked up like a porcupine and was the same shade of black as the cloak except the tips were dark red like flecks of blood. The helpless victim began to struggle, waddling back and forth in the sand, but the stranger didn't seem to like that, and he showed it by pulling out a long crooked dagger that seemed to hurt just by looking at it, many barbs jutting off the edges and it then flew through the air piercing Kabal's right shoulder to the hilt piercing out the other side. Blackness surrounded his eyes and his mind left him, slacking into unconsciousness.
Jax and several other agents drove on the desert road toward the GPS location of Kabal's car, as they drove up to it a clear trail of blood led off and continued off for a long distance. As soon as the blue Hummer jeep pulled over to the side of the highway, Jax leapt out and ran toward the trail sprinting through the sand until he found Kabal. A large chasm was dug into the earth, five foot by seven foot by seven foot, and at the bottom was Kabal, burnt, and surrounded by glass as if the sand was heated with an extreme flame.
"Sergeant Marks, get Kabal out of there, Kim call paramedics while I alert Sonya." Both officers hurried to do their designated job while Jax pulled out the small phone and dialed Sonya's number, beeping commenced which quickly was replaced with the frantic voice of Ms. Blade, soon to be Mrs. Cage.
"Jax what is going on?" She didn't give him much time to answer as she began coming up with several scenarios to ask him about. "Did he get in a wreck? Did he get stuck in a ditch... Or a tree?"
"I don't know what happened Sonya, but he's been injured very badly and the paramedics are on the way to get him from me, he has third degree burns on most of his body, entry wounds in his shoulder, left hand, and right knee, exit wounds in the left elbow, shoulder blade, and left knee. Shrapnel damage probably from the broken glass from the car, and damaged trachea." An audible gasp came from the other side of the phone, and a rustling sound as the phone changed hands.
"It's Kurtis, Sonya is, well I don't think I need to explain it, do you think you can get him to the hospital and fix him up." But Jax didn't want to respond, he kept silent for almost a minute.
"He is beat up pretty badly," over the phone Stryker could hear the sound of the ambulance sirens, "I don't think a hospital can help." Kurtis groaned from the other side of the line, his exasperation clear even through the sound of the sirens.
"Tell the ambulance to take him to the hospital in Roswell, I will call ahead, there may be a chance we can save him but it will come at a price." As if he knew what Jax would say next he went ahead and spoke again. "CY-B corporate hospital, they might be..." An audible explosion came from the phone and the signal died.
Sonya and Johnny stood at the sound of the bombing, and the heavy wooden doors of the church flew into the stone building, slamming into several of the people sitting or standing in the benches. From the doorway smoke poured forth and a silhouette stood in the door way, a glinting red light shining through the mist. Several other silhouette joined that of the first one, but the way they moved was a little jerky and the shadow looked more mechanical then the smooth round shape of a human.
"Sorry about the door sweetheart, I just thought I would drop by." The voice was rough with a heavy Australian accent, and as if to emphasize the pun, the shapes behind the man leapt into the air and crashed through the stone ceiling, again dropping onto four or five people in the audience. But they weren't men, they were cybers, their heavily armored metallic glinted from the sunlight that fell from the holes in the ceiling, all of them were grey painted with black wiring sprouting from their head to form a sort of ponytail.
"Kano..." Sonya's tongue burned in her mouth as the name slipped out of her mouth. This man had hurt her several times since she had met him, her partner Jax taught him a lesson at one point which ended with him having his right eye beat out of him.
"Sonya, I had no idea this was your wedding? Oh wait yes I did." The wretched man began to laugh, the sound of pistons and whirring gears was heard all around and the arms of the cybers produced barrels of some gun above the wrist. Instant reaction took over, Sonya, Stryker, and a few other agents pulled out their pistols and fired at the drones. Their chests, heads, and shoulders jerked as the bullets bounced and slammed into them, but it didn't slow them down, and the barrels of their guns began to smoke and burst as the drones fired their machine guns into the crowd around them. people fell, though the smarter agents dove behind the piano, the altar or an aisle without a drone in the way. The sound of more voices came from the doorway and when Sonya peered around from the side of the altar and saw ten other men joining Kano wearing black and red uniforms holding rifles and shotguns. A streak of lightning flew across the room striking a cyber in the chest, and everyone looked over toward Raiden. Everyone behind the altar except Jax, Stryker, Liu and Kung Lao looked over and then at Sonya.
"He's a thunder god, now shoot the damn robots!" More bullets fired through the air, and with a wicked laugh Kano threw his crooked dagger, and Sonya starred in horror as it struck the knee of Johnny, and everyone heard the cracking of bone and cartilage (not to mention a scream of pain) over the heavy gunfire. In the confusion of the firefight, Liu began to get distracted, his fist flying like peels of thunder as it struck the chest and head of the mercenary he was fighting, he tuned out the world as his anger grew. But he couldn't see as Kung Lao was overwhelmed by two drones, that dragged him around and stole him as they flew through the ceiling in a leap. Sonya fired five shots into the air where the machine men fled through the holes in the stone roof.
"Well I should say this wedding is sufficiently cracked, let's go gents." Said Kano, and taking the men he still had he left the chapel leaving everyone to deal with the death, blood, and decay that was filling the room around them. Sonya shouted orders at her friend Alice, who happened to be a paramedic, to work on Johnny, afterward she motioned for Stryker, Liu Kang, Kung Lao and Raiden to follow her as she made a swift stride to a separate room.
"What the hell just happened!" She shouted.
"How the hell am I suppose to know?" Yelled Stryker, everyone was beaded with sweat, and with splotches of blood streaking over a few people in a few places.
"It appears that your old friend Kano has grown an army of his own mercenaries, though I am unsure what the robots were." Said Raiden, his voice calm and unmoving as always.
"They appeared to be prototypes, well based on the jerky movements and lack of real armor or weaponry, did anyone else notice they didn't actually fight like the mercenaries they just used their guns?" Said Stryker, but it was no longer assured as his usual tone was, it was a nervous tone, almost fearful of the unknown assailants, something no one had heard from this man before.
"We need to go after Kano, he has Kung Lao and we need to save him." Liu Kang was getting emotional, something Raiden had struggled to show Liu wasn't the best choice.
"Peace Liu Kang, we will get Kung Lao back, I promise." He then looked over toward Sonya, "Where is Jax and Kabal, we need to get them back here so we can go after Kano and those robots, and we need to get Johnny to a hospital." Raiden stood and walked to Johnny's wounded form, "Johnny, I am going to take you to the hospital, it will make you sick but it should seal the wound." Raiden placed his hand onto the shoulder of his friend and a field of lightning surrounded the two and in a flash of light the two disappeared leaving a black stain on the stone.
"Liu Kang, you need to go, go to the nearest monastery, Raiden will likely meet you there. Sonya, you and I are going down to H.Q. we need to track down Kano." Stryker continued to shout orders. Another flash of light followed by a fall of lightning and Raiden stood there again, Johnny not with him.
"Johnny is now at home resting, everyone we need to be ready for another attack."